IT'S BECOME A YEARLY RIGHT OF SPRING IN THE TOWN OF TURNER ... DEALING WITH FLIES -- AND LOTS OF THEM. THE LOCALS BLAME IT ON THE NEARBY EGG FARM, AND SAY THIS YEAR HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY BAD. SO BAD THE STATE HAS CALLED IN INVESTIGATORS. WMTW NEWS 8'S JIM KEITHLEY IS LIVE IN TURNER TONIGHT WITH AN UPDATE ON THE SITUATION. WE'RE AT THE TRASK HOME - WHERE SUNDAY'S GRADUATION PARTY TURNED UGLY --WHEN THE FOOD CAME OUT, SO DID THE FLIES - IT WAS LIKE AN INVASION THE FAMILY SAID - LOOK AT THESE FLY STRIPS... THEY WERE FULL WITHIN MINUTES. "It looked like a dust when the flies came up and just circled around him, I've never seen so many in my life." GREG TRASK DESCRIBING SUNDAY'S GRADUATION PARTY FOR HIS GRANDSON - THE COOKOUT WAS A BUST - AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE FOOD WAS SERVED. "You couldn't enjoy even getting a dish you had to make sure they were covered even inside the house because there were so many flies on it and all the hamburgers out here and all the macaroni salads and all that stuff in there just coated with flies, and of course we had little kids and everything else and sodas, they just covered this place you couldn't sit down anywhere without eating a hamburger and there was five or six flies on the hamburger while you was eating it." GREG TRASK AND OTHERS BLAME THE YEARLY FLY INVASION AND THE SMELL - ON THE MOARK EGG FARM...IT'S A SPRAWLING FACILITY -- ONCE OWED BY JACK DECOSTER. TRASK WENT TO A LOCAL INFORMATIONAL MEETING LAST NIGHT ABOUT THE ISSUE, AND SAYS A COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE TOLD PEOPLE THEY ARE SPENDING MONEY TO MITIGATE THE PROBLEM, AND BLAMED THE FLY INFESTATION ON A WET SPRING. WE CALLED THE COMPANY THREE TIMES TODAY, THEY DID NOT RETURN OUR MESSAGES. "They always blame it on a wet spring. Which I ain't saying isn't true. They can't get on the fields to spread the hen manure, but every year it's gotten worse, it ain't gotten better." "ON THE WAY CAFE" IS ON THE WAY OUT OF TOWN, AND JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE EGG FARM - RIGHT ON ROUTE 4 - THEY'VE BEEN SWATTING FLIES CONSTANTLY. THE OWNER SAYS SHE'S LOSING BUSINESS - WHILE THE LOCALS UNDERSTAND, PEOPLE PASSING THROUGH ARE DISGUSTED - WHEN THEY SEE SO MANY FLIES - FLYING AROUND THEIR FOOD. "We've probably killed at least two hundred in here today easily, between us and customers we've been going around all day with fly-swatters." THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF ARGRICULTURE TOLD ME TODAY - THEY ARE SENDING OUT INVESTIGATORS TOMORROW, SO THEY CAN COLLECT SAMPLES OF THESE FLIES, THEY'LL BE ANALYZED AND THEN A DECISION WILL BE MADE WHAT TO DO NEXT. MEANWHILE THE TOWN WILL HOST ANOTHER INFORMATIONAL MEETING IN TWO WEEKS, THEY CAN EXPECT EVEN MORE UPSET RESIDENTS TO TURN OUT DEMANDING A RESOLUTION TO THE FLY PROBLEM. LIVE IN TURNER JIM KEITHLEY WMTW NEWS 8.

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